Coptic melodies on online music sites

31-01-2018 11:21 PM

Marina Barsoum

Lovers of Coptic melodies may now look forward to downloading them from music sites on the Internet.

Renowned deacon and cantor Antoun Ibrahim Ayad has signed a contract with the “RE Media”, owned by the businessman Richard al-Hag, and which specialises in Christian productions. Attending the signing was the company’s Business Development Manager George Fayeq.

The contract aims to publish online both rare and well-known Coptic hymns and melodies chanted by Mr Ayad and his father, the topmost cantor in the Coptic Orthodox Church, Muallim, literally Teacher or Master, Ibrahim Ayad.

The melodies will be posted on websites including anghami, deezer, amazon, itunes and spotify in addition to social media sites such as Facebook and Youtube.

Reaching Out

Watani started as an Egyptian weekly Sunday newspaper published in Cairo. The word Watani is Arabic for “My Homeland”. The paper was founded in 1958 by the prominent Copt Antoun Sidhom (1915 – 1995), who strove for the establishment of a civil, democratic society in Egypt, where all Egyptians would enjoy full citizenship rights regardless of their religious denomination. To this day when Watani is published as a weekly paper and an online news site, the objective remains the same. Those in charge of Watani view this role as a patriotic all-Egyptian vocation. Special attention is given to shedding light on Coptic culture and tradition as authentically Egyptian, this being a topic largely disregarded or little-understood by Egypt’s media. Watani is deeply dedicated to offer its readers high quality, extensive, objective, credible and well-researched media coverage, with special focus on Coptic issues, culture, heritage, and contribution to Egyptian society.